If someday they decide give us a new Vampire Hunter D, I'd love if they keep this art style. I think this style is timeless, and one of the reasons why the movie became such an icon.
I remember always seeing Vampire Hunter D at rental places decades ago and I just never picked it up. It's weird because the memory of this particular anime holds up surprisingly well in my mind but I've never sat down and watched it.
Agreed. There were anime staples in the 80s, 90s and early 2000s that you could find at rental stores and it seems like Ninja Scrole and Vampire Hunter D and a handful of others were often times the ONLY anime many people had seen.
ikr, still pissy about it. saw the film 3-4 years after it came out in japan and though oh maybe they're working on a sequel cuz manga and prequels and bla bla ~~~~ been waiting ever since. Original animators are probably retired or even dead.
@billjones642 be careful what you ask for having every thing you want at your finger isnt allways a good thing people worked hard to make this art that you seem to like you shouldnt think of them as easliy replacable
This is the counterpoint of "I was one of them", the scene where the old man that D is buying a new horse from turned out to not only have been rescued by D when he was just a kid but also one who'd been hoping to get a chance to finally be thankful through all the years since. Leila was there and witnessed the whole scene. It may well have been why she had D promise to come.
I still remember getting called over to my buddies apartment after I got home from work to watch this for the first time back in 2002. It's a highlight of anime in general even twenty two years later. The only bad thing is realizing that much time has passed really drives home how much I'm starting to feel like the old man in the barn lol
But, Left Hand has been with him for literally millennia, and frequently annoys D for his often mean-spirited commentary and cowardice: but, if D so chose, he could permanently part with him. But, the sentimental value of his “handy” little cohort, (among a slew of radical supernatural talents), and a genuine, underlying friendship has bonded them for eternity.
There’s a chance one of Leila’s kids could’ve been Grove’s, as they weren’t really genetic siblings and Grove hints at them having a romantic relationship in the very beginning.
@@dogewood5499I don’t think Grove was even healthy enough to have kids. While yeah they definitely had feelings, it was a case of a hopeless love with no future sadly.
I feel like eternity alone would be an acceptable payment for the ability to really help people, to really challenge the great terrors of your world. Am I crazy?
@@nopenahman7380 depends on if you can handle it Loneliness is a strange beast: it does no snarl and gnash, it quietly stalks the dark recesses of your mind, waiting, watching, for its moment to strike When it takes you, it will do so at your weakest and most vulnerable It is a subtle knife, loneliness
I am a 40 year old dude who mostly watches lectures and reads science books. And at the end of this cartoon, I wept. The whole grandiose stroy, with powerful beings and incredible feats was just a background. The real protagonist was Leila and the actual plot was her redemption. She freed herself from the past, from the trauma to be able to live her true life. Fantastic setting was an allegory for trauma, regret and insecurity that haunt and enslave people, and Leila is every one of us. You, me, anybody can always, always leave the BloodluSt behind and choose to be free.
I wouldn't want a Netflix series or something like that. Because you know it would get the Rings of Power treatment. Better to stick with adaptations of the books. Keep the animation and everything else in the same spirit and style as the first two movies. Don't re-invent the wheel; stuck with what works. If any Hollywood executives or scriptwriters with bad ideas are out there...I hope they read this.
It's honestly the single simplest and yet most unspoken wish anybody could have... That somebody WILL show up to our funeral when we die and properly see us off. Thankfully for her, she had friends and family and a plus 1 (and a half if you count the hand) show up.
I was introduced to Vampire Hunter D by a kid in my English class in the 8th grade. It was back in 98, I had never heard of the series before. Since then I have never seen any vampire related media that I’ve liked as much.
The fact that the Marcus brothers were incredibly horrible to her in the manga, too. And in the manga, they're all related by blood makes it even more fucked up. I prefer them in the anime version. They aren't entirely sympathetic, but they aren't the worst forms of life to ever exist, either.
@@lhommemystere3938 In the Vampire Hunter D manga & novel "Demon Deathchase" the Marcus brothers all sexually abuse Layla. Even Grover, shriveled and pathetic as he is, takes a go at her at some point in the story. It's revealed that the brothers were pretty horrid to her, including the aforementioned sexual abuse. I can't recall if she's actually related to the Marcus brothers or if he was someone they "adopted" and then sought payment from in return for their "kindness." I do know that the novel that Vampire D Bloodlust is based on ends RADICALLY different, with a creature like D's left hand taking control of a mutilated and dead Borgoff (the eldest brother), and killing Mayerling (resulting in Scarlet killing herself to join her lover in death). The ending of the movie is a LOT more optimistic (and imo more fitting) than the original. If you haven't I highly recommend picking up or acquiring a copy of either the novels or the manga. Both are superb horror/dark-fantasy, and while the movie is fantastic in it's own right, the source materials are just delightful.
@definitivamenteno-malo7919 Crashandersen602 is talking about the novel. Sadly, there's no manga, but the novel does have a few illustrations in some parts of the story.
@@gothhydran2241 there very much IS a manga. It is as of yet unfinished, and it covered only eight volumes after the illustrator suffered an injury* that kept them from finishing. It’s very well illustrated and I encourage you to find in read it if you’re a fan.
When I was 6 I had this movie. I watch the first one and this one with my mom an dad. Now I'm 21 and, oh god. It has a really special place in my heart.
D had taken the trouble to keep track of her all the years after they had gone separate ways to make sure he'd know when to come to see her funeral. This shows how much their friendship meant to him. Just seeing her granddaughter give him that friendly smile must have made it worth it.
Gosh, this part was so cool! D manages to be the epitome of awesome both by being this gothic, stoic, badass, AND by being a virtuous, compassionate, all around good man who's out to help people.
Always wished they would have had D's brother show up at the end in the distance, as from what I can remember D had a twin brother. That would be a nice stop point with a cliff hanger that would be interesting, but also a jump off point for another movie with it centering on the history and story of the two brothers and their father maybe even.
I'm usually a Sub kinda guy. But the Dub of this movie is just "Chef's Kiss" Its Absolute God tier... Oh and the studio who made this movie also did a Highlander anime movie, worth a watch.
The thing about D, be it the novels or any anime that comes to pass one day; he lives on. He was designed by Dracula and if he had a suicidal impulse in his entire being he'd have done himself a long, long time ago. D lived through the worst of the Vampire Society post-apocalypse then outlived it... and whatever happens, he'll probably outlive that, too.
This clip brought to to looking for the movie, which i was surprised to discover is on youtube still free. Damn, thanks for letting me know about this jem, whoever you are who posted this!
As much as I love to have the whole VHD universe explored and have it a shot at series, sometimes Short, Simple yet Solid piece of art like this movie does the job, and it should stay like that.
In a sense D is like Frieren, but somehow in D he always finds gratitude from those who recognize his status as a timeless creature, while Frieren finds only loneliness and solitude.
this scene and the one where he meets that old guy who remembered who D was when he was rescued as a kid. he still remembered him after all those years and he returned the favor
To this date this is my favorite anime film. It's such a visual feast. And this scene of all other always gets me, the little girl's second "goodbye" just hits me right in the feels.
I honestly wasn't extremely entertained by this movie, but it remains one of the most beautiful animated films I've ever seen, it is legitimately made with 100% love and the story is great, simple and straightforward, not my style but all respects to it, I've rewatched it 3 times so that speaks volumes, and I still aim to show it to my other friends just because the quality is so phenomenal
